triveni spotlight: 19th May 2025
- Anju Kishore
- May 19
- 1 min read
triveni spotlight A FEATURE EVERY ALTERNATE DAY hosts: Anju Kishore and Mohua Maulik GUEST EDITOR: Shloka Shankar
19th May 2025
triveni spotlight May 2025
between two moons our first person plural
— Kelly Sauvage Angel
Sonic Boom, Issue #16
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Theme: Metapoems & Language
I have always been fascinated by the creative process—the sacred act of writing itself, the repealing of the blank page. To celebrate the ars poetica and the building blocks of language, my curation for the month of May centres around metapoems. What happens when whole lexicons, adjectives, verbs, apostrophes, and schwas lace haiku with nuance and layers? How can grammatical terms form the backbone of a poem? I hope you enjoy unfolding these questions—and more—as you ponder these sixteen poems.
Shloka Shankar
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Many thanks to our guest editor Shloka Shankar for this month’s selection and theme. Poets, we look forward to your company on this fascinating tour of what language can do to the poetry of haiku.
_()_ triveni spotlight team
between two moons our first person plural
— Kelly Sauvage Angel
A tender, cosmic sliver of intimacy. The monoku stretches grammatical and spatial boundaries with elegance—“our first person plural” evoking both grammatical unity and shared identity, suspended delicately between two moons. Minimalist and profound. Much enjoyed.
---Billie
How beautiful!
Very romantic and universal!!!
first person plural
In grammar, first-person plural refers to the pronoun "we" and its related forms (us, our, ourselves) when speaking about the speaker and one or more other people. It's used to indicate a group that includes the speaker.